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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (original 1986; edition 1999)

by Jon Bentley

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A lot of good articles on the intricacies of computer programming. A bit outdated, but then again, what isn't? ( )
  trilliams | May 30, 2015 |
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A lot of good articles on the intricacies of computer programming. A bit outdated, but then again, what isn't? ( )
  trilliams | May 30, 2015 |
If you want to learn about the latest web programming frameworks, design patterns, J2EE, .NET, CSS, RoR, etc. then please stay away from this book. Once you think you mastered it all, became a professional programmer with also a nice CS degree under your belt come back and start to read this book for pure pleasure and wisdom. It is with high probability that you'll have both and more than you could have imagined.

Bentley's classic work is still relevant but not in ways most programmers will imagine at the beginning. You'll probably never go and write your own search routines and re-implement classical data structures (you'll use the one that comes with the standard libraries of your language of choice) but you'll always meet some problems which will puzzle you with interesting constraints. This is what Programming Pearls is all about. Study the examples for fun and maybe laugh at them for their simplicity but then remember to applied the strong principles in that book to your daily technical problems (programming related or not). ( )
2 vote EmreSevinc | Jul 2, 2010 |
Lively but dated intro to data structures. ( )
  hithereimdan | Sep 19, 2008 |
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